NOW LIVE! Today's the day you meet your new best friend. You don’t have to leave Wolfy behind... In 'Pets & Sidekicks' your companions level up with you!

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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 7964003" data-attributes="member: 7006">If it's so easy, then why aren't YOU doing it?  You could write it all up yourself and post it to DMs Guild and get people to buy it from you.Oh right... because that wouldn't be real.  You need real Forgotten Realms.  And the only way the story of the Forgotten Realms is real is if people who work for the brand that controls the Realms writes something that the brand then publishes.  If that happens, then what was written was real Forgotten Realms. Anything else that anyone else does isn't real, and thus doesn't matter.But as has been said time and time again... the brand that publishes the Realms has stopped caring what is and isn't real anymore.  They aren't concerned with canon.  The need for a long, drawn-out, ridiculously overwritten timeline and history of hundreds of locations over dozens of millennia is gone.  The people who control the brand just... don't... care.  They are off the canon treadmill.  Because it's a waste of time, a waste of money, and a waste of energy. And it serves no purpose except to make a few obsessive-compulsive fantasy history buffs happy.  But the people who control the brand aren't here for you anymore.  They're now here for the other 99% of the population who only care about the Forgotten Realms for what it can do for their game.  Not for the history books, but for their game.If it's useful for everyone's game at the table, like say for an adventure that people can actually sit down and play... then sure they'll fill in some details like for the Sword Coast or Chult.  But they aren't going to write setting details just for the sake of it because some people have this ridiculous need for their history book to continually be full.  If you want your history book full... then write it yourself and finally accept the fact that the stuff you write is real for your Forgotten Realms campaign game.  It is now just as real as anything Christopher Perkins may write.</blockquote>

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